Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-07-02
BroOksville Items.

MR. EDITOR As have seen no
items from lIrOpkSvillc recently. and
having Il little leisure. | have conclud-
cd. with Your permission. TO give you
some account of the closing Of Brooks.
vile High School. II is unnecessary
for me 10 say ANYTHING of the sermon
delivered by Rev. Mr.. Cody, ut Meri-
dian, ~ Big Bud, in last weeks paper,
gave YOU very correct account OF u.
The entertainment on Monday night
was said to have been up 10 the aver.
age. We were greatly disappointed
by Rev, Mr.. Iowrcy being attained al
home by sickness; however, Miss
Edith DiSmukes was present, and by
request, delivered Il lecture on The
South" Her style is Impressive. Her
recitation, The Sioux Chiefs daugh
ter" was delivered in y highly crcdita-
bic manner. But it was not OF the
commencement we wanted to write
il was OF the school and its workings.
The success of B~ruoksvillc High
School is gratifying to its scores Of
friends and patrons. Organized six
years ago, with only thirty.siX pupils,
and u assistant and N room, twcn-
ty-tive by forty feet, the present scs-
sion closed with 1876 pupils on roll,
with three assistants and three rooms,
one "a by SO feet. II 20 by 25, and
the music room II by Is feet. Begin
ming with no apparatus, the school is
now supplied with black boards, wall
maps and charts. an organ, patent
seats aud desks This exhibit, think,
is rs emphatic an endorsement 40
could be of Prot. Pace and his able as
s%istants.
This school is fully abreast with the
times. was very forcibly struck
with the way in which they teach
English Grammar by diagraming, Ito
me a new Way and it is certainly II
very great improvement on the old
plan. The process of d%in.raming is
well entitled to consideration. Under
the old regime the pupil, after having
been taught the parts of speech, was
compelled to learn their rank and de-
pendcncc in the sentence through the
car alone, unaidcd by any other organ
or sense. Now, by means of diagrams,
he not Only hears, but sees, what is SO
necessary tor him ~ know and reincm-
Der.
In the first place. he is made to I'M
dcr,tand that the three first and most
important elements in every sentence,
arc the subject verb, and object or at
tribute, the importance of these clc-
mcnts being impressed by their posi-
,ions on the main line. Next he secs,
by the diagram or picture, that all 9TH
or parts are only notifications or de-
pLndcnt.. this important fact, as be-
lore, being indicated and Impressed
by their positions upon lines attached
to and dependent on. the main line
bearing upon it the principal parts.
BY the use Of the diagram, the eye,
that organ through which impressions
arc most readily and effectively con-
veycd, is brought into rcquisiti0n,
willie the old plan of conveying these
impressions. by means OF the ear, is in
no degree left of. both eye and car be-
ing made use of to impress what be-
fore was taught by the car alone. OF
course. Just in proportion rs the use Of
two organs, sight and hearing, is more
rapidly and effective in its results, in
just the same proportion is the o II
sirurtion and use of language taught
more rapidly and lastingly by the new,
than by the old method, by diagrams,
AS comnarel with the old oral plan.
1t appears strange, MOTTO say incrcd-
lille. TO many older people, that child
of from eight to len years will now
be brought to comprehend and re.
member essential principles in the stu.
dy OF Grammar which, years ago,
were thought incomprchcnsiblc, PIX
ccpt hy much m0r maturcd minds,
and even 10y those only well under.
stood and utilized after courses of
study of more than twice fhc length Of
time now employed Now, even be.
fore the pupil is brought to comprc-
bend the names of the different class
cs of words or parts of .pccrh by
their uses mot wen very difficult
task on the part of even young chill
drcn J they arc at once set to work d.
agralniug sentences by means of which
tho rank and dependence of those
words, as before said, are taught and
impressed. This subject of Grammar,
as now taught by diagrams, is but an
instance Of the superiority o! modern
methods of instruction over the old
way.
So, in conclusion, allow me to say to
parcnts.whO have boys and girls &c
send to school, that they cannot do
better. advantages offered and cost
considered, than to put them in charge
of Prot. Pace. T.. IL. CACY.